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Is Apple Music on Android good?
So before the question let me add some context: I'm planning to move from iOS to Android, mostly because how difficult is to backup photos from iPhone into my computer. I don't want my photos on...
So before the question let me add some context: I'm planning to move from iOS to Android, mostly because how difficult is to backup photos from iPhone into my computer. I don't want my photos on iCloud so I make my backups copying all the photos and videos into my computer, I currently use Fedora Linux and keep my photo library on digiKam which I think is better than the Apple Photos app for Desktop. It certainly was easier when I used my Macbook for that, but being a Macbook from 2015 the battery is almost dead and I no longer use it.
Recently I saw reviews for Android phones from last year and fell in love with the Asus Zenfone 10, I love small phones and that one looks amazing, but I'm still tied to the Apple ecosystem, and the service that I would miss the most from them is Apple Music. So that is actually the only reason that I'm still using an iPhone, (that and the camera which was pretty amazing back when my iPhone13 was released).
So I'll have several options:
- Keep using iOS and suck it up, maybe even giving up and doing my backups to iCloud (it's 10 years worth of photos and videos).
- Move to android and use Spotify like everyone else. (I really don't want to go back to Spotify so that's the last thing I want to do).
- Use Apple Music for Android. Which I really don't know how good or bad it is. I'm even surprised that there's a version for Android.
- Just have an mp3 library like in the good old days. This is a viable solution since I listen to music almost exclusively by albums and it's easier to download music album by album than song by song. But that also means I'll need to be caring around my music library and making backups of it.
So the question is: have anyone here used Apple Music on Android? Is it good?.
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Inside the world's highest tech prison - HMP Fosse Way
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Spotify is the world's biggest music streamer but rarely turns a profit and just cut 17% of its workforce – its business model looks increasingly precarious
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Early on-demand music streaming required lots of nickels
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It sure looks like a hacking campaign messed up people's Spotify Wrapped
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Anyone have recommendations for a CD player I can charge via USB and play via BT (or USB) in my car?
A recent post here made me realize how much I really wish I just could pop in a CD while driving (you can skip those, and I can make mix CDs, so no need for cassettes haha). I commute a decent...
A recent post here made me realize how much I really wish I just could pop in a CD while driving (you can skip those, and I can make mix CDs, so no need for cassettes haha). I commute a decent amount and I'm using a Pixel with GrapheneOS. Adding a streaming service would just be one more piece of Google I'd have to add to my "work" profile. I'm listening to some great podcasts, but I'd rather go full nostalgia without ripping all my CDs.
That being said, I'd like any recommendations. USB would be nice for the constant power option, but blutooth is doable as well. TIA!
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Daniel Ek says Spotify has no plans to completely ban content created by artificial intelligence from the music streaming platform
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TikTok’s plan to take on Spotify and Apple Music
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New Apple Music player from iOS 17 coming soon to Android app
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Pirate site not impressed by global DNS blocking order
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Spotify is raising the price of its single-account premium plan for the first time since 2011 and hiking other services as well
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Vibrating haptic suits give deaf people a new way to feel live music
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Using in-ear monitors with active noise-cancelling on the street
Using iem with ANC on the street Hello! I'd appreciate knowing how is it to go out on the street using an iem with ANC. Especially when you are on a sidewalk next to a heavy-traffic street or when...
Using iem with ANC on the street
Hello!
I'd appreciate knowing how is it to go out on the street using an iem with ANC. Especially when you are on a sidewalk next to a heavy-traffic street or when you are on the subway for example. Does the ANC eliminate completely those types of loud sounds? Or they are still present but just not on the same level?
I ask this because I use IEM with foam ear tips but with no ANC. I feel that the foam ear tips normally makes a good seal and isolate conversations next to me or other sounds in my house. But when I go to the street in those places I mentioned the sounds are still somewhat present, although not at the same level as the music I hear. So I was thinking if I could achieve more isolation using for example a ANC iem.
Any insight would be much appreciated thank you!12 votes -
Can anyone tell what's wrong with my tape deck?
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Free and/or open-source software alternatives for churches
I've been seeing some cool software in the church space lately with lots of fancy bells and whistles that handle many different aspects of running a church (social, presentation, tithing, etc.)....
I've been seeing some cool software in the church space lately with lots of fancy bells and whistles that handle many different aspects of running a church (social, presentation, tithing, etc.). However, not all churches, especially small ones, can afford them or have members savvy enough to set it all up and maintain/operate them. I thought this could be a cool thread for free and or open source software that churches can use can use (Does not necessarily need to be design specifically for churches).
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Here is a list of paid examples:- Renewed Vision
- ProPresenter
- ProVideoPlayer
- ProVideoServer
- Scoreboard
- ProContent
- Microsoft Office
- PowerPoint
- Excel
- Google
- Slides
- Sheets
- Forms
Here is a short list of FOSS alternatives:
- Free Show
- Owncast
- Rock RMS
- Choyr
- OBS
- OpenLP
- WorshipTools
21 votes - Renewed Vision
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Spotify fined in Sweden over GDPR data access complaint – coming more than four years after a complaint was lodged by noyb
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In addition to fake music, artificial intelligence has created a big new problem for Spotify – fake listeners
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A Pixies song is accidentally turning off Google alarms
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Streaming sites urged to stop AI from cloning pop stars
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Spotify breaks down the mapping tech behind its algorithm | The Tech Behind
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Spotify is shutting down Heardle, the Wordle-like music guessing game it bought last year – will sunset on May 5 as it aims to focus on music discovery
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Testing Spotify's virtual radio host – the service curates a stream of songs I've heard before. Do I really need this?
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Two C64s plus a pile of floppy disks equals one accordion
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Riffusion – Stable Diffusion fine-tuned to generate music
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Spotify is openly lashing out at Apple over a dispute that centers on the 30% App Store fee they charge for in-app digital services transactions
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Does anyone know of alternative Spotify client options to reduce the algorithmic clutter
I've been slowly more frustrated by the Spotify client updates particularly on android and short of getting all my music offline which I'd like to do eventually I want an alternative client that...
I've been slowly more frustrated by the Spotify client updates particularly on android and short of getting all my music offline which I'd like to do eventually I want an alternative client that isn't going to change the layout constantly and make listening to the music I want to listen to any more difficult than it should be.
I'd also like to filter out podcasts if possible because I have my way of listening to podcasts and spotify filling my home screen with them isn't going to make me any more likely to use them.
Especially if they keep fucking pushing podcast episodes featuring deceased family members just to ruin my morning.7 votes -
Trackers: The sound of 16-Bit
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Illinois officer claims Sheriff's office told him to play copyrighted music to shut down citizens' recordings
22 votes -
Musician Holly Herndon open sources her voice
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Midnight Sun K-Pop ‘pirates’ being reported to INTERPOL, streaming platform warns
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title.wma - The origins of Windows XP's welcome music
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Announcements from today's Spotify "Stream On" event - Launching in eighty new regions, lossless quality coming to Premium in some markets, podcast updates, and more
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Officer plays copyrighted music while being filmed
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New Spotify patent involves monitoring users’ speech to recommend music
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A positive ContentID story
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The design of the Roland Juno Oscillators
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Is high-fidelity audio a genuine product or unnecessary overkill?
Note: if this topic is better served in ~music than ~tech feel free to move it! If I wanted to buy Linkin Park's A Thousand Suns, I have the following options: From Amazon 256 kbps VBR MP3...
Note: if this topic is better served in ~music than ~tech feel free to move it!
If I wanted to buy Linkin Park's A Thousand Suns, I have the following options:
From Amazon
- 256 kbps VBR MP3 ($11.49)
From 7digital
- 320 kbps MP3 + 256 kbps MP3 ($12.99) (I'm assuming it's 320 CBR/256 VBR)
- 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC ($16.49)
From HDTracks
- 24-bit/48kHz FLAC ($19.98)
From Qobuz, which appears to be a different mastering of the album:
- "CD Quality" FLAC ($14.49)
- 24-bit/48kHz FLAC ($16.49)
- 24-bit/48kHz FLAC ($10.99 with subscription to their $250/year service)
Does paying more for the higher fidelity actually matter? I suspect that this is just a form of price discrimination preying on my want to have an "objectively" better product, because I'm assuming there's a ceiling for audio quality that I can actually notice and the lowest encoding available here probably hits that. I also don't have any special listening hardware.
I understand the value of FLAC as a lossless archival encoding (I used to rip all my CDs to FLAC for this purpose, and I've been downloading my Bandcamp purchases in FLAC all the same), but for albums I can't get through that service it appears that the format has a high premium put on it. Bandcamp lets me pay the same price no matter the format, but every other store seems to stratify out their offerings based on encoding alone. A Thousand Suns costs nearly double on HDTracks what it does on Amazon's MP3 store, for example, despite the fact that I'm getting the exact same music, just compressed in a different way.
As such, is paying more for FLAC unnecessary? Is high-fidelity FLAC in particular (the 24-bit/48kHz options) snake oil?
Furthermore, Qobuz seems to offer a different mastering of the album, which seems like it actually could be significant, but it's hard to know. Is this (and the various other "remasters" out there) a valid thing, or is it just a way to try to get me to pay more unnecessarily?
(Note: I'm using this specific album simply because it was a good example I could find with lots of different stratified options -- I'm not interested in the particulars of this album specifically but more in the general idea of audio compression across all music).
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Spotify CEO talks Covid-19, artist incomes and podcasting
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With YouTube Music, Google is holding my speakers for ransom
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Copyright blocks interview of protesters because Marvin Gaye's 'Let's get it on' was playing in the background
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Jukebox - Neural net that generates music
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Polish sound postcards (pocztówka dźwiękowa)
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SoundCloud Go+, the streaming service's subscription tier for listeners, has expanded into four new markets – Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden
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[SOLVED] Some of my internet radio stations aren't playing on my computer
EDIT: The problem has been solved. @Sill identified the problem here and @cfabbro found a work-around here. Crisis averted! I listen to some internet radio stations on my computer, but a couple of...
EDIT: The problem has been solved. @Sill identified the problem here and @cfabbro found a work-around here. Crisis averted!
I listen to some internet radio stations on my computer, but a couple of them aren't working any more: they appear to play, but there's no sound coming from my computer's speakers.
It is only two stations. I've tested other internet radio stations I listen to, and they still work: I can hear them. I can play and hear YouTube videos. I can stream Spotify on my computer. I can play and hear my music files stored on my computer's hard drive. So I know my speakers work. I know Chrome works as a music player for other sources, including other internet radio stations. It's just these two radio stations.
One of them is this radio station. Also this radio station. I know their digital streams are working, because I can listen to them via an internet radio app on my phone. So I know their digital signals are being sent out. But, while my phone app can play them, my computer browser can't play them.
I've tested both non-working stations in Chrome and Internet Explorer. They both don't work in Chrome, but this station also doesn't work in IE.
I'm using Chrome 80.0.3987.122. And I'm running Windows 7.
This problem only started a couple of days ago.
What's going on? How do I fix this?
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Modern copyright law is a joke
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Tough, waterproof 3.5 mm cables
I'm looking for some very tough, ideally waterproof 3.5mm male to male cables. Does anyone out there have a recommendation?
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8tracks, a site for sharing music playlists, is shutting down on Dec. 31 - The story of their 11-year journey from launch to shutdown
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YouTube Rewind 2019
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Are Spotify’s shareholders failing to see signs of the early stages of subscriber saturation?
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